Minnesota a bicentennial history
by William E. Lass
- New York W.W. Norton & Company Inc 1977
- 224 p.
Includes Index
Invitation to the reader -- Preface -- Minnesotans and the land -- Europeans in the wilderness -- America asserts herself -- Minnesota's quest for Empire -- Trials of Statehood -- Peopling the land -- Three frontiers -- A legacy of protest politics -- Minnesota and the Nation -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index
A history of the state from territorial times to the present explores the ideals the American people have espoused and the experiences they have undergone.